# Does anyone write pirate fiction? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 4, 2006, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-write-pirate-fiction/379111 "2006-11-04T19:52:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2012, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-write-pirate-fiction/379111/21 "2012-12-01T04:44:39Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I’m reading Tim Powers’s _On Stranger Tides_ right now. You couldn’t get more piratical. Tim Powers has terrific ideas, but sinks himself by being unable to write convincing period settings or dialogue for toffee. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2012, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-write-pirate-fiction/379111/22 "2012-12-01T08:04:08Z")
**The Wake of the Perdido Star** , by Gene Hackman. Yeah, that Gene Hackman… ---
**Author:** ![Suil\_Dubh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85f322/32.png) [@Suil\_Dubh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suil_Dubh)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2012, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-write-pirate-fiction/379111/23 "2012-12-01T09:15:51Z")
Here’s a treasure trove of past-copyright “Pirate Tales” eBook files. > **[Pirate Tales | ManyBooks](https://manybooks.net/categories/PIR)** > > “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.” - Walt Disney History is rife with robbers and murderers, but few of them have attained the almost mythical status of their seafaring brethren - the pirates. In this... ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2012, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-write-pirate-fiction/379111/24 "2012-12-01T09:38:51Z")
But does anyone write _zombie_ pirate fiction? ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2012, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-write-pirate-fiction/379111/25 "2012-12-01T14:13:30Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > But does anyone write _zombie_ pirate fiction? Acually, _On Stranger Tides_ features zombie pirates! They finally “based” one of the _Pirates of the Caribbean_ movies on the book, but the very first one reminded me of[this cover](http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/006209453X/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_0?ie=UTF8&index=0&isremote=0)… ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2012, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-write-pirate-fiction/379111/26 "2012-12-01T14:59:04Z")
As long as we’re back on the subject, let me mention Gideon Defoe’s Pirates series: _The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists The Pirates! in an Adventure with Whaling The Pirates! in an Adventure with Communists The Pirates! in an Adventure with Napoleon The Pirates! in an Adventure with the Romantics_ As you might guess from the titles, they’re not conventional pirate stories. The first book was the source for the recent Aardman Animations movie. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2012, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-write-pirate-fiction/379111/27 "2012-12-01T15:17:01Z")
He-Pirate to She-Pirate: You’re a Pirate Captain? But where are your buccaneers? She-Pirate to He-Pirate: On the sides of my buccing head. 😃 😛 Plundered from somebody’s pirate comic strip, appropriately. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2012, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-write-pirate-fiction/379111/28 "2012-12-01T15:27:58Z")
Have you tried the Bodice-Rippers section of the local library? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hershele_Ostropoler)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2012, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-write-pirate-fiction/379111/29 "2012-12-02T02:03:02Z")
Well, with NaNoWriMo done, I am casting about for something to do next … ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-write-pirate-fiction/379111/30 "2012-12-04T16:05:43Z")
Well, there’s the **Bloody Jack** series, by L.A. Meyer, the first book being **[Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary “Jacky” Faber, Ship’s Boy](http://www.amazon.com/Bloody-Jack-Account-Curious-Adventures/dp/015205085X)**. I’ve only read the first, and it was a fast read, but good. Basically, it’s a chronicle (written in a sort of 18th-century style) of the life of a girl who lived as a street orphan. When her gang fell apart and she was basically staring at starving or being murdered, she disguised herself as a boy and took a job aboard a Royal Navy vessel. High seas adventure ensues. There are 10 books, I believe. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-write-pirate-fiction/379111.md?page=1)